Text tagging
Similar passage comparison
Authority term statistics
Data visualization
The Digital Analysis System for Humanities (DASH) develops digital tools to meet the demands of humanities research, assisting scholars in upgrading the quality of their research. We hope to integrate researchers, research data, and research tools to broaden the scope of research and cut down research time. DASH provides a comprehensive research environment with cloud computing services, offering all the data and tools scholars require. Researchers can upload texts and authority files, or use others’ open texts and authority files available on the DASH. Authority terms possess both manual and automatic text tagging functions, and can be hierarchically categorized. Once text tagging is complete, you can calculate authority term and N-gram statistics, or conduct term co-occurrence analysis, and then present results through data visualization methods such as statistical charts, word clouds, social analysis graphs, and maps. Furthermore, DASH provides functionality for similar-passage comparison, Boolean search, word proximity search, and statistical filtering, enabling researchers to easily carry out textual analysis.
Data Archives:Interface with the extensive text archives of the Academia Sinica Institute of History and Philology’s Scripta Sinica Database (about 260 million words), Kyoto University’s Kanseki Repository (about 1.3 billion words), and Harvard University’s Chinese Text Project (about 5.1 billion words), and Wikisource (about 2.46 billion words), and Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) (about 0.6 billion words), along with open authority files for names of place, dynasties, and people – the fundamental sources required for your research.
Shared Editing:Groups of users can jointly edit texts, authority files, and tagged content, enabling researchers to assemble different communities to tackle different research subjects.
Content Search: The structure and content of texts are open for browsing, Boolean search, multiple-term proximity search, and statistical filtering of search results, enabling researchers to quickly find keyword distributions and refine results.
Data Analysis: Analysis of authority terms, N-gram statistics, word frequency variation, and term co-occurrence across texts enables researchers to quickly find underlying relationships within big data. 。
VisualizationPie charts, line charts, word clouds, social network analysis graphs, and geographic information system tools present the results of textual analysis in graphic form, enabling researchers to more intuitively survey phenomena concealed within the data.
Main Functions of the Digital Analysis System for Humanities:
1. Upload texts and authority files, or import data from other systems (Scripta Sinica Database, CText, Kanripo, CBETA, 中醫笈成, Wikisource)
2. Add open data from other platform users, or share your own data
3. Download statistics and analysis results
4. Flexible, customizable search (Boolean, multiple-term proximity search, etc.)
5. Text similarity comparison
6. Word frequency statistics (authority terms, N-grams)
7. Word co-occurrence statistics
8. Data visualization (histograms, network graphs, etc.)
9. Spatiotemporal display integration (GIS)
10. Chinese word segmentation and analysis (CKIP, Jieba)
In addition, we also continue to develop the Digital Analysis System for Humanities’s related tools and technologies, including: Linked Open Data (LOD), the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), Text recognition and proofreading platform(https://ocr.ascdc.tw), and Named Entity Recognition. Once these technologies and tools are ready, we will open their services for use by researchers.
When using or referencing this platform as part of your research, please cite the following:
Wang, Hsiang-an and Li, You-sheng (2021). Academia Sinica Digital Analysis System for Humanities Development and Applications. Journal of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities (數位典藏與數位人文期刊), 7, 99-131. doi:10.6853/DADH.202104_(7).0004
or
Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (2018). Academia Sinica Digital Analysis System for Humanities. https://dh.ascdc.sinica.edu.tw/
